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		<title>In Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump seeks to move past domestic troubles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2017 12:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump arrived in the Middle East on Saturday, touching down in Saudi Arabia to begin his first trip abroad, a visit aimed at forging stronger alliances to combat terrorism while seeking to push past the series of controversies threatening to engulf his young administration. Trump flew to Riyadh overnight on Air Force One and was welcomed during an elaborate ceremony at the airport, punctuated by a military flyover and a handshake from Saudi King Salman. Trump is the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Americans offer hope, prayer in assessing Donald Trump&#8217;s 100 days</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They are young and old: a high school student who can&#8217;t yet vote, a Vietnam vet who did so proudly. They hail from all corners of the United States and very different walks of life: a &#8220;downhome boy&#8221; from Kentucky, a third-generation Mexican-American from Texas, a stay-at-home mom in Pennsylvania, an Iranian immigrant in Los Angeles. Some oppose Donald Trump and all that he stands for, while others voted enthusiastically for him. Now, they are critiquing him. One hundred days&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Dina Powell? A rising Donald Trump national security figure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The photo from inside Donald Trump&#8216;s makeshift situation room at Mar-a-Lago affirmed what White House insiders have recognized for some time — that Dina Powell has quietly established herself as a White House power. Though sandwiched between other administration officials, the deputy national security adviser for strategy stands out as the only woman among 13 staffers in the room on the night the president ordered the missile attack in Syria. And in a White House that is split between outsider&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggests that Adolf Hitler didn&#8217;t use chemical weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested Tuesday that Adolf Hitler didn&#8217;t use chemical weapons. Hitler killed Jews during the Holocaust using gas chambers at concentration camps. Spicer, comparing Hitler to Syria&#8217;s Bashar Assad, said Hitler &#8220;didn&#8217;t even sink to using chemical weapons.&#8221; An April 4 chemical weapons attack in northern Syria left nearly 90 people dead, and the U.S. has blamed Assad. Turkey&#8217;s health minister said Tuesday that test results confirm sarin gas was used. Spicer later tried to&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FBI reviews handling of terrorism-related tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 17:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terrorism-related tips and leads from the past three years to make sure they were properly investigated and no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned. The review follows attacks by people who were once on the FBI&#8217;s radar but who have been accused in the past 12 months of massacring innocents in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub, injuring people on the streets of New York City, and gunning&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Marco Rubio says next step in Syria is negotiating regime change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Marco Rubio says the next step in Syria should be to work with Sunni governments to discuss &#8220;an alternative&#8221; government in Syria. Rubio is a Florida Republican and onetime rival of President Donald Trump. The conservative tells NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show that Trump should reach out to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Turkey, to discuss ways to get Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and create a new regime. Assad has not responded to&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis: For Donald Trump, the weight of world&#8217;s problems sink in</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For Donald Trump, the reality of the world&#8217;s problems may be starting to sink in. Standing in the sunny White House Rose Garden, the president said Wednesday that the gruesome chemical weapons attack in Syria had changed his views on the quagmire of a conflict that he&#8217;d previously indicated he wanted to steer clear of. He mourned the deaths of the youngest victims — &#8220;innocent children, innocent babies&#8221; — and said brutality had &#8220;crossed a lot of lines for me.&#8221;&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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